Up-to-Date Servants (1910)
The Van Camps are out of town and the maid and chauffeur are in charge of the house. During the absence of the mistress, cards of invitation to a certain ball were left for her, and the maid, knowing that Mrs. Van Camp will not return in time to keep the engagement, resolves to masquerade as her mistress and attend the affair herself. She tells Bob, the chauffeur, but he refuses at first to be a party in the deception and shows the maid a letter just received from Mrs. Van Camp, stating that she will be home at 12 o'clock and for Bob to meet her at the railroad station with the car. Marie, however, insists that she will go and urges Bob to find a dress suit among the master's wardrobe, while she, in the meantime, will array herself in one of Mrs. Van Camp's evening dresses. An hour later they are ready for the ball and sweep gallantly out of the drawing room with as much grace as even the fashionable Mr. and Mrs. Van Camp might have done. In the ballroom Marie makes a decided hit and arouses the admiration of a princely young fellow, to whom she gives every dance. The evening flies away and as the hour of twelve approaches, Bob endeavors to find Marie, but she is nowhere to be found. Fearing discharge if he fails to meet his employer he hurries out, jumps into the car and speeds to the station. In the meantime Marie is busily engaged with her young prince when the clock strokes twelve. However, before the last stroke of the hour she is seen flying down the stairs and so great is her alarm and apprehension that she loses a slipper and does not stop to pick it up, but hurries on. When her handsome young companion of the evening finds her gone he also rushes down the stairs but finds nothing of her, except the silken slipper. The next morning the young man's mind is in a whirl as he thinks of the events of the night before. The slipper is in his pocket and occasionally it is removed and pressed to his lips. At the breakfast table there is an altercation with the cook, who immediately throws up her job and stalks out. Here is a pretty state of affairs for Jack's mother, who, that evening, was to give a party in honor of the young man's birthday. However, the father promises to visit an employment bureau on his way downtown and find a new cook. Here he meets Marie, who has been summarily discharged by Mrs. Van Camp, after she had learned the full details of the shocking incident. Jack's father employs the girl and she is given the name and address of her new mistress and told to see her immediately. That evening Jack is in the dumps, despite the jollity of the others, and finally he is forced to confess to the merry-makers the real reason for his gloom. He is looking for Cinderella or the lady who can wear this tiny slipper. Then there is the fun of trying on the slipper, but not one of the girls present is able to squeeze into it. Jack is in despair when his mother announces that the refreshments are served and Marie, laden down with good things, comes into the room. She sees Jack and crash goes the cake tray. But Jack drags her forward and tells her to try on the slipper. She has no opportunity to demur and a moment later her tiny foot is encased in the slipper. With a glad cry and a toast, Jack announces the finding of his Cinderella.
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